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If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.

The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.

I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.